By: AP via ABC News -- The Bowl Championship Series as college football fans have come to know it is going away. Over the next six months, the people who oversee the much-maligned postseason format will talk about how to reconstruct the system for crowning a national champion. In the tumultuous 14-year history of the BCS, the appetite for change among college football's leaders has never been stronger. "It's my impression that ... there will be meaningful discussion about ... Read More

From: ESPN.com -- NEW ORLEANS -- Bowl Championship Series officials will meet Tuesday to exchange ideas about possible changes to the format of major college football's postseason system. "Everything you can imagine will be discussed," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said. "Everything from format, who plays who, to where they play, to the business aspect of it ... it's all going to be on the table." The meeting will bring together the 11 conference commissioners and ... Read More

By Pat Brennan (TheLantern.com) -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — You could use three words to describe the now-departed Ohio State football senior class: good, bad and ugly. For several Buckeye seniors, whose legacy to OSU football might be in question, Monday's season-ending 24-17 loss to Florida in the 2012 Gator Bowl, was an opportunity to reflect on the highs, the lows and the forgettable moments of their OSU careers. Several players, including senior center Michael Brewster, pointed to back-to-back Bowl ... Read More

By Doug Lesmerises  (The Plain Dealer) -- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- This is a long way from 41-14. Florida's win over Ohio State in the BCS National Championship game on Jan. 8, 2007, seems more like 50 years ago than five the way the 2011 seasons transpired for the 6-6 Buckeyes and 6-6 Gators. "That just made us want to get to Florida faster," Gators' fifth-year senior Chris Rainey, then a Florida recruit, said of the lopsided final in the Arizona. ... Read More

By Bill Livingston (Cleveland.com) --  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A bitter, shocking year for Ohio State is almost over. But not before the scandals that cost football coach Jim Tressel his job and sabotaged the 2011 season also blighted plans for a swift return to glory next year with Urban Meyer. Fittingly, a 6-6 Ohio State team, wounded by its own players' selfishness, faces a 6-6 Florida team still recovering from Meyer's resignation. Playing the Gators in the Gator ... Read More

By Mark Podolski (News-Herald.com) -- Columbus is a few hours from these parts, but that didn't stop the news from the Ohio State football program reverberating here in 2011. There was plenty of it, and most of it not good. Because of that, it's no surprise Jim Tressel resignation as OSU football coach was voted the top sports story of 2011 by The News-Herald sports staff. Tressel's departure was polarizing. His supporters stood firmly behind the coach who, in 10 ... Read More

BY MATT MARKEY (ToledoBlade.com) -- JACKSONVILLE -- The Ohio State offense in 2011 was an ever-changing amalgamation of whoever was eligible, whoever was healthy, and whoever the Buckeyes had standing around. The starting lineup was fluid, to say the least. A rash of suspensions connected to the tattoo and memorabilia scandal took four starters from the lineup before the Buckeyes took the field for the season opener. Quarterback Terrelle Pryor, expected to be a leading Heisman Trophy candidate in ... Read More

By: Cory McCartney (Sports Illustrated via CNN.com) -- Reason to watch: Urban Meyer's past collides with his future when Florida faces Ohio State. The former Gators coach and newly hired Buckeyes headman has said he won't attend the game, which interim Luke Fickell and his staff will coach. Still, it's going to be hard to ignore the elephant that's not in the room. Meyer recruited most of the players on Florida's roster and he'll almost certainly add ... Read More

By Edward Aschoff (ESPN.com) --  Publicly, the Gators aren’t sweating the Urban Meyer drama surrounding the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl. Sure, the man who led Florida to two national championships and three SEC title games in six years will soon be manning the Ohio State team the Gators are pitted against at Everbank Field in Jacksonville, Fla., but Florida players aren’t concerning themselves with the iconic figure that left the program a year ago. “We talk about it a little bit, ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com via NBC4i.com -- PONTE VEDRA, Fla. -- Coach Luke Fickell led the Ohio State Buckeyes through a two-hour workout Wednesday at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Field. The session was held under superb blue skies. Temps were moving toward the 60-degree range and it was brisk at times, but not enough to keep the players from a working up a good sweat. And the sweating started early, as Fickell and the coaches had the players ... Read More